A slightly shorter trip today to visit Maze grid, run by Prince Amor. He's a big Star trek fan and we visited his Solar System region about a year ago, if you recall that flight between all the planets on a saucer, over on OSGrid. This was before the recent Asset event on OSgrid, and this time we're checking out Prince's own grid which boasts about twenty public regions plus plenty of residentials.
Fitheach Eun: Hi Prince
Tosha Tyran: Hi Prince, you look like it is best to keep a little distant... :D
Maia Antarra: hi Prince, if I bump into anyone...I can't see you so sorry about that... ok now that is one scary avatar prince!
Prince Amor: I try to be different, different avatar a day keeps ones mind fresh
Thirza Ember: saves on soap also
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Prince Amor: feel free to take what you like there and share them long as you don't charge for them that is what they are there for
Fitheach Eun: np can't see half of you myself. If you are having trouble seeing everyone try: Preferences/Graphics/Rendering/Show Avatars who have not finished loading, click that
Prince Amor: some seem to rez in some don't, some day they will fix it
Forest Azure: ohhhh.. getting a body!
Thirza Ember: Pince can you tell us how long you've been in virtual worlds, and how you started this grid?
Prince Amor: going on over 3 years now...I started in osgrid. Thanks to Foxx Bode, and then well I was so happy to know that there was another way than Second Life to enjoy these things. I offered free land; for a while had 200 free people, then after that. well. I learned that some don't appreciate things that are free, so to eliminate the clutter I started charging the five dollars a month for land. I was still "all OSGrid" then. Due to maintenance issues, I started a Dreamgrid, mostly so when OSGrid was off. My people would still have access after all they didn't pay five dollars to not use their land etc... and so I would go back and forth... Then in December I learned what I had to know to run standalone instead, so when the apocalypse happened, well, I was able to bring everyone I had in OSGrid here, which was around 100 regions. 150 or so people,
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| Prince and Maia looking a bit like something from a fairy tale |
Thirza Ember: that's a pretty good sized grid
Jade Serenity: thats great Prince
Prince Amor: saved as much inventory as we could. at moment I have 200 people with accounts 10 regions on OSGrid and the rest on this grid
Fitheach Eun: How many regions here?
Prince Amor: 110 regions
Star Ravenhurst: That is impressive!
Prince Amor: i have 4 computers running the grid, gaming ones. I don't believe in selling things I get for free make the world a better place, I believe there is no reason to charge people for mesh
Tosha Tyran: I like your thinking Prince, sharing is the better option
Prince Amor: or scripts why make something and not have it used? I also try to educate those that want to learn, I bring in a lot of unreal assets, I use Copilot like crazy for scripting. We are all enabled to not have to be a consumer
Thirza Ember: so - just to be clear, Prince, if someone's interested in making an account on this grid, it's not going to disappear and be re-absorbed into OSGrid is it?
Prince Amor: absolutely not most of the accounts in hypergrid are multi alt anyway
Thirza Ember: I'm curious, who here has more than 3 accounts on different grids?
Fitheach Eun: /me raises hand, shrugs; roleplayer ;)
Malburns Craftster: me
Maia Antarra: me too
Tina Bey: tres
Prince Amor: it is just the way it is one would be a fool not to have more than one
Ange Menges: osgrid + zetawords + avacon +standalone :-)
Thirza Ember: Today, Prince has a RL commitment so he can't be with us for the full hour, so we're going to hurry it along now, and go see another region he has here, the Fantasy medieval
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Prince Amor: this is a high LOD mesh experiment not sure how it will handle all the avatars with it but when it rezzes you will be able to zoom out as far as you like
Jade Serenity: 60fps doing good so far
Prince Amor: there is a cache stump there, if you feel you need it
Thirza Ember: hold your breath and count to 10 and the sim should appear, either that or you'll faint... FUN TIMES
Forest Azure: 6... 8... 10... ah, now i see Tosha's head, with no Tosha
Prince Amor: stufffff is coming, i just seen the castle appear, castles in background coming now
Jade Serenity: very nice build
Tina Bey: hehehe
Fitheach Eun: Is that the coliseum?
Prince Amor: yes this was a kit on sketchfab called desert fortress
Maia Antarra: Kitbash stuff?
Prince Amor: yes, those too yes, Unreal engine, depends, Humble Bundle has great stuff.
Fitheach Eun: Yeah Humble has some great Unreal assets
Maia Antarra: such great quality too... you can convert that to dae?
Prince Amor: yes converted in Blender of course, pbr most of it. I tend to sort my inventory with categories cars to cars...etc... having the stuff in an oar helps negate chances of loss
Nara Nook: I am starting to see it and it looks really good.
Prince Amor: Also Meshy This avatar i am wearing was made by an ai
Maia Antarra: nicely rigged too
Prince Amor: 20 dollars a month allows you to lower complexity our basic prim is really mesh but low load. In blender and other software, you can sculpt and put together buildings and all that. In reality, our opensource format here is compatible with every single game in existence. People just have lost the knowledge and skill to do it and of course, Second Life charging to upload...
Nara Nook: I've used Unity packages in Opensim. I'll have to try Unreal
Star Ravenhurst: Does that mean you could use a map generator meant for a game and bring it into Open Sim?
Prince Amor: no it means that every platform there if you bring it into blender you can export it to dae and upload it here for free - millions of things
Star Ravenhurst: I see. Well there went that hope.
Prince Amor: Unity s a bit harder because they have a proprietary format and the software it self is a nightmare to get around in. Unreal is still a bit rough but it is very doable, fbx is usually their asset file and glb if you get the plugin, well you just upload it straight here.
Maia Antarra: I've used that format, you can import them into Blender
Prince Amor: there are millions of free meshes on line if one looks
Nara Nook: Humble is a really good resource
Maia Antarra: I find the texturing and animating tricky still
Prince Amor: you export from unreal the glb then you upload the material here then you convert the glb in blender to dae upload the mesh apply the glb and boom
Maia Antarra: how do you apply the glb?
Prince Amor: the interface for Unreal is a little awkward, Right click on any object...newest Firestorm required. Go to the texture tab, go to the material square, click it and choose it just like you would a texture when you upload the glb it will upload ALL the textures you need for the pbr at once... you can also do the bling phong with them if you like at same time. The house there if you see it was done that way and the castles farther back
Maia Antarra: thanks I learned something new today
Prince Amor: no one has to be slave to ignorance here or a slave to money, one must choose to learn of course, which is not always fun but part of human
Thirza Ember: we like to learn, but we also like freebies
Prince Amor: well why make something and not share it with millions of things out there... why make this world like the real world
Tosha Tyran: absolutely
Thirza Ember: we make lag and share that...
Prince Amor: one wants to get rich inherit a fortune it will only last a year - then what does one have?
Thirza Ember: a hangover
Tosha Tyran: the memory of richness passed
Prince Amor: and lots of exes hehe
Thirza Ember: I know you have to go to RL work now Prince so I'd like to thank you for showing us all this and there is so much more to discover here so I'm sure everyone will want to come back and explore more
Maia Antarra: Thanks Prince
Prince Amor: yes do feel free to come again and visit or ask me questions if you all need it, wander as you like if you can't get something message me later will make sure it happens
Fitheach Eun: It looks great
Tosha Tyran: sounds great Prince
Prince Amor: just if you do high LOD make sure you make it phantom and put up prim walls transparent!
Thirza Ember: I love the way you are happy to share your knowledge about making things, and not just the things themselves, that's true generosity
Jade Serenity: oh and great job on your Avy Prince, i love originality
Fitheach Eun: Yeah that's a scary one
Thirza Ember: hope everyone friended Prince, so you can come back and bug him about your building questions
Jade Serenity: hahaha I read 'hug him'
Forest Azure: hug might be difficult
Maia Antarra: you might get accidentally mauled
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Very interesting technical questions and answers - wish I could have made it!
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